Murdoch University
Website: http://www.murdoch.edu.au/
Murdoch University is a participating member of the Innovative Universities European Union Centre.
General Information
Murdoch University is located south of Perth on the largest university campus in Australia. Home to some 14,000 students, including 750 in postgraduate programs, Murdoch hosts more than 2,000 overseas students from approximately 70 different countries.
  
Murdoch has links with over 65 universities from around the world. In 2006, over 150 students from European countries attended Murdoch; Murdoch students also participate in the Study Abroad/Exchange Program allowing them to spend a semester or full year studying overseas. Agreements exist with European partner universities in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In addition, Murdoch has academic and research collaboration partners located across the world, including in Germany, Italy, Turkey, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.
Courses and Units
From 2007, Murdoch is collaborating with the other five members of the IUEU Centre in a networked unit on the history, institutions and challenges of the European Union (HIS225: The European Union). Other units of interest are also offered in the areas of international law, international business, European history and politics.
IUEU Conference at Murdoch
Murdoch University’s contribution to the IUEU Centre’s series of conferences will be on ‘Security Challenges in the Asia-Pacific: New Forms of Political Violence’, to be held in February 2009 in conjunction with Murdoch’s Asia Research Centre.
Research
Key focus areas for the IUEU Centre represented at Murdoch University include:
- Islam and its Global Impact and Global Security
- The Asia Research Centre (ARC) at Murdoch was established as a Special Research Centre of the Australian Research Council in 1991 to provide analysis of social, political and economic change in contemporary East and Southeast Asia. It continues to be an international leader in the field and is formally recognised as an area of key research strength within the university.
- Murdoch is one of the few institutions in Australia to offer an undergraduate degree in ‘Security, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies’.
- Environmental Sustainability
- The Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP) at Murdoch was established in 1988 to help create a better understanding of the roles and effects of science and technology for the benefit of all sectors of society. It has grown to become Australia’s leading research institute for sustainability and one of the largest in the world, with research that focuses on integrating policy for simultaneously creating a better economy, an improved environment and a more just, participative society.
- The Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE) is a research centre based at Murdoch to offer a full range of testing, research and development, education and training, policy analysis, demonstration, monitoring and resource assessment services in the field of sustainable energy.
- The Environmental Technology Centre (ETC) at Murdoch University was established in 1992 and became a United Nations Environment Programme International Environmental Technology Centre Cooperative Centre in 2002. As the Asia Pacific Cooperation Research Centre, the ETC's research program includes projects in the areas of water, food, energy, shelter, and material resources, with an emphasis on the integration of these areas to achieve sustainability.
- Murdoch is presently establishing one of the most extensive agricultural and biotechnology precincts in Australia. It will combine a new Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases (IID) that will deliver leading edge international medical research with the co-location of the Headquarters and Biosecurity unit of the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA), and major components of Agricultural Research WA (ARWA), on the Murdoch campus.
- European Diaspora and Cultural Difference
- The Krishna Somers Foundation at Murdoch brings together interdisciplinary scholars for the study of diasporas and trans-cultural issues. Recent visiting scholars include Professor Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn of Saarland University (Germany) and Dr. Andrew Teverson of Kingston University (UK).
- Europe and European Integration
- Research at Murdoch University related to Europe, European communities and the European Union includes work by Professor Gabriël Moens (Dean of the School of Law) on EU business law; Associate Professor Fernand de Varennes on linguistic rights, diversity and rights of minorities; Dr. Andrew Webster on the history of internationalism and international organizations; and Dr. Lubica Ucnik on European philosophical discourses on rights.
Contact
Dr. Andrew Webster,
IUEU Centre Lecturer in Modern European History,
Phone:
(08) 9360 6642
Email:
A.Webster@murdoch.edu.au
Address: School of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Murdoch University
Murdoch, WA 6150
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